Brocade 5300 Reference Manual

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31 May 2012

Brocade 5300

Hardware Reference Manual

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Document History

Document Title Publication Number Summary of Changes Date

Brocade 5300 Hardware Reference Manual 53-1000858-01 New document March 2008

Brocade 5300 Hardware Reference Manual 53-1000858-02 Document update July 2008

Brocade 5300 Hardware Reference Manual 53-1000858-03 BSMI statement updated October 2011

Brocade 5300 Hardware Reference Manual 53-1000858-04 Chinese regulatory

statement added

May 2012

Contents

About This Document

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii

How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii

Supported hardware and software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii

What’s new in this document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii

Document conventions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii

Text formatting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii

Command syntax conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii

Notes, cautions, and warnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix

Key terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix

Notice to the reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix

Additional information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix

Brocade resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x

Other industry resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x

Getting technical help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x

Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi

Chapter 1 Brocade 5300 Introduction

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Brocade 5300 overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Port side of the Brocade 5300. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Non-port side of the Brocade 5300. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Ports on Demand license . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Brocade Inter-Switch Link (ISL) Trunking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Chapter 2 Brocade 5300 Installation and Configuration

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Items included with the Brocade 5300. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Installation and safety considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Electrical considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Environmental considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Cabinet considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Recommendations for cable management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Items required for installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Installing a standalone Brocade 5300 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

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Cabinet installation for a Brocade 5300 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Brocade 5300 configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Providing power to the switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Creating a serial connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Switch IP address. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

Date and time settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

Chapter 3 Brocade 5300 Operation

In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Powering the Brocade 5300 on and off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

LED activity interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

Brocade 5300 LEDs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

LED locations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

LED patterns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20

POST and boot specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22

POST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22

Boot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22

Interpreting POST results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23

Brocade 5300 Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Installing an SFP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23

Field Replaceable Units (FRUs). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Brocade 5300 Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Appendix A Brocade 5300 Specifications

In this appendix. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27

Switch components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Weight and physical dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28

Facility requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Power supply specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28

Environmental requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

General specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Data transmission ranges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Memory specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Fibre Channel port specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Serial port specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32

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Index

Regulatory compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32

FCC warning (US only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33

KCC statement (Republic of Korea) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33

VCCI statement Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Power cords (Japan Denan). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33

China statement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34

BSMI statement (Taiwan) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35

CE statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35

Canadian requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Laser compliance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35

RTC battery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35

Electrical safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36

Regulatory certifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Environmental regulation compliance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

China RoHS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

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About This Document

In this chapter

•How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii

•Supported hardware and software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii

•What’s new in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii

•Document conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii

•Notice to the reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix

•Additional information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix

•Getting technical help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x

•Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi

How this document is organized

This document is organized to help you find the information that you want as quickly and easily as
possible.

The document contains the following components:

• Chapter 1, “Brocade 5300 Introduction,” provides an overview of the Brocade 5300 switch, a

feature list, and a look at the appearance of the switch.

• Chapter 2, “Brocade 5300 Installation and Configuration,” provides the information needed to

install the switch into your network.

• Chapter 3, “Brocade 5300 Operation” discusses the day-to-day operational procedures for

using the switch.

• Appendix A, “Brocade 5300 Specifications”provides tables of physical, environmental, and

general specifications, helpful for quick lookup.

• The index points you to the exact pages on which specific information is located.

Supported hardware and software

Although many different software and hardware configurations are tested and supported by
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. for Fabric OS v6.1.0, documenting all possible
configurations and scenarios is beyond the scope of this document.

This document is specific to the Brocade 5300 and Fabric OS v5.3.0. To obtain information about a
Fabric OS version other than v5.3.0, see the documentation specific to that OS version.

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What’s new in this document

The Chinese regulatory statement has been added. “China statement.”

Document conventions

This section describes text formatting conventions and important notice formats used in this
document.

Text formatting

The narrative-text formatting conventions that are used are as follows:

bold text Identifies command names

Identifies the names of user-manipulated GUI elements
Identifies keywords and operands
Identifies text to enter at the GUI or CLI

italic text Provides emphasis

Identifies variables
Identifies paths and Internet addresses
Identifies document titles

code text Identifies CLI output

Identifies command syntax examples

For readability, command names in the narrative portions of this guide are presented in mixed
lettercase: for example, switchShow. In actual examples, command lettercase is often all
lowercase. Otherwise, this manual specifically notes those cases in which a command is case
sensitive.

Command syntax conventions

Command syntax in this manual follows these conventions:

command Commands are printed in bold.

--option, option Command options are printed in bold.

-argument, arg Arguments.

[ ] Optional element.

variable Variables are printed in italics. In the help pages, values are underlined

enclosed in angled brackets < >.

... Repeat the previous element, for example “member[;member...]”

value Fixed values following arguments are printed in plain font. For example,

--show WWN

or

| Boolean. Elements are exclusive. Example:

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Notes, cautions, and warnings

NOTE

ATTENTION

CAUTION

DANGER

The following notices and statements are used in this manual. They are listed below in order of
increasing severity of potential hazards.

A note provides a tip, guidance or advice, emphasizes important information, or provides a reference
to related information.

An Attention statement indicates potential damage to hardware or data.

A Caution statement alerts you to situations that can be potentially hazardous to you.

A Danger statement indicates conditions or situations that can be potentially lethal or extremely
hazardous to you. Safety labels are also attached directly to products to warn of these conditions
or situations.

Key terms

For definitions specific to Brocade and Fibre Channel, see the Brocade Glossary.

For definitions of SAN-specific terms, visit the Storage Networking Industry Association online
dictionary at:

http://www.snia.org/education/dictionary

Notice to the reader

This document may contain references to the trademarks of the following corporations. These
trademarks are the properties of their respective companies and corporations.

These references are made for informational purposes only.

Corporation Referenced Trademarks and Products

IBM Corporation IBM, FICON, PowerPC

Additional information

This section lists additional Brocade and industry-specific documentation that you might find
helpful.

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Brocade resources

To get up-to-the-minute information, join Brocade Connect. It’s free! Go to http://www.brocade.com
and click Brocade Connect to register at no cost for a user ID and password.

For practical discussions about SAN design, implementation, and maintenance, you can obtain

Building SANs with Brocade Fabric Switches through:

http://www.amazon.com

For additional Brocade documentation, visit the Brocade SAN Info Center and click the Resource
Library location:

http://www.brocade.com

Release notes are available on the Brocade Connect Web site and are also bundled with the Fabric
OS firmware.

Other industry resources

• White papers, online demos, and data sheets are available through the Brocade Web site at

http://www.brocade.com/products/software.jhtml.

• Best practice guides, white papers, data sheets, and other documentation is available through

the Brocade Partner Web site.

For additional resource information, visit the Technical Committee T11 Web site. This Web site
provides interface standards for high-performance and mass storage applications for Fibre
Channel, storage management, and other applications:

http://www.t11.org

For information about the Fibre Channel industry, visit the Fibre Channel Industry Association Web
site:

http://www.fibrechannel.org

Getting technical help

Contact your switch support supplier for hardware, firmware, and software support, including
product repairs and part ordering. To expedite your call, have the following information available:

1. General Information

• Switch model

• Switch operating system version

• Error numbers and messages received

• supportSave command output

• Detailed description of the problem, including the switch or fabric behavior immediately

following the problem, and specific questions

• Description of any troubleshooting steps already performed and the results

• Serial console and Telnet session logs

• syslog message logs

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2. Switch Serial Number

The switch serial number and corresponding bar code are provided on the serial number label,
as illustrated below.:

*FT00X0054E9*

FT00X0054E9

The serial number label is located as follows:

• Brocade 200E—On the non-port side of the chassis

• Brocade 300, 4100, 4900, 5100, 5300, 7500, and Brocade Encryption Switch—On the

switch ID pull-out tab located inside the chassis on the port side on the left

• Brocade 5000—On the switch ID pull-out tab located on the bottom of the port side of the

switch

• Brocade 7600—On the bottom of the chassis

• Brocade 48000—Inside the chassis next to the power supply bays

• Brocade DCX—On the bottom right on the port side of the chassis

3. World Wide Name (WWN)

Use the wwn command to display the switch WWN.

If you cannot use the wwn command because the switch is inoperable, you can get the WWN
from the same place as the serial number, except for the Brocade DCX. For the Brocade DCX,
access the numbers on the WWN cards by removing the Brocade logo plate at the top of the
non-port side of the chassis.

Document feedback

Quality is our first concern at Brocade and we have made every effort to ensure the accuracy and
completeness of this document. However, if you find an error or an omission, or you think that a
topic needs further development, we want to hear from you. Forward your feedback to:

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Provide the title and version number of the document and as much detail as possible about your
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Chapter

Brocade 5300 Introduction

In this chapter

•Brocade 5300 overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

•Port side of the Brocade 5300 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

•Non-port side of the Brocade 5300 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

•Ports on Demand license . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

•Brocade Inter-Switch Link (ISL) Trunking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Brocade 5300 overview

The Brocade 5300 is an 80-port 1, 2, 4, or 8 Gbps Fibre Channel switch that delivers Brocade sixth
generation ASIC technology and architecture for Fibre Channel Storage Area Networks (SANs). The
Brocade 5300 is designed for the needs of enterprise environments that require a high-port
footprint for por t aggregation.

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With its high auto-sensing port count and ports-on-demand flexibility, the Brocade 5300 is an ideal
solution as a fan-out switch from a director core, or as the core switch in a fabric. The Brocade
5300 satisfies demanding Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS), performance and
scalability requirements of an enterprise switch while delivering interoperability and ease-of-use
advantages found only in the Brocade product family. The Brocade 5300 is the latest enterprise
offering from the Brocade family of entry-to-enterprise products, and offers the following features
and capabilities:

• Up to 80 auto-sensing ports of high-performance 8 Gbps technology in a single domain.

• Ports On Demand scaling from 48 to 64 or 80 ports.

• Full 1:1 subscription on all 80 ports at 8 Gbps.

• 1, 2, 4 and 8 Gbps auto-sensing Fibre Channel switch and router ports.

• FICON and FICON Control Unit Port ready.

• Fibre Channel Routing (FCR) service, which provides improved scalability and fault isolation,

along with multi-vendor interoperability through the optional Integrated Routing license.

• Two hot-swappable, redundant power supply FRUs.

• Three hot-swappable fan FRUs in an N+1 configuration to provide hardware-redundant cooling.

• Universal ports that self-configure as E, F, M or FL ports. Ex_Ports are activated on a per port

basis with the optional Integrated Routing license.

• An RJ45 Ethernet management port, in conjunction with EZSwitchSetup, that supports switch

IP address discovery and configuration, eliminating the need to attach a serial cable to
configure the switch IP address and greatly increasing the ease of use.

• USB port that provides storage for firmware updates, output of the supportSave command and

storage for configuration uploads and downloads.

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Port side of the Brocade 5300

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• A system motherboard that features a Freescale MPC8548 Reduced Instruction Set Computer

• Inter-Switch Link (ISL) Trunking (licensable), which allows up to eight ports (at 1, 2, 4, or 8 Gbps

• Dynamic Path Selection (DPS), which optimizes fabric-wide performance and load balancing by

• Rack-mount design using existing rail kits (fixed, sliding, and mid-mount/Telco rail kits) on a

• Industry-leading extended distance support, which enables native Fibre Channel extension

• Brocade Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP) or SFP+ optical transceivers that support any

• Unicast, multicast (255 groups), and broadcast data traffic type support.

• Brocade Fabric Operating System (FOS), which delivers distributed intelligence throughout the

• Port-to-port latency minimized to 2100 nanoseconds through the use of cut-through frame

• Extensive diagnostics and system-monitoring capabilities for enhanced high Reliability,

• The Brocade EZSwitchSetup wizard that makes SAN configuration a three-step point-and-click

(RISC) CPU running at 1.3 GHz with integrated peripherals, and that provides high performance
with low power consumption.

speeds) between a pair of switches combined to form a single, logical ISL with a speed of up to
64 Gbps (128 Gbps full duplex) for optimal bandwidth utilization and load balancing.

automatically routing data to the most efficient available path in the fabric.

19” EIA rack.

greater than 590 km (366 miles).

combination of Short Wavelength (SWL), Long Wavelength (LWL), or Extended Long
Wavelength (ELWL) optical media among the switch ports.

network and enables a wide range of value-added applications including Brocade Advanced
Web Tools and Brocade Zoning. Optional Fabric Services include: Adaptive Networking with
QoS, Brocade Extended Fabrics, Brocade Enhanced Group Management, Brocade Fabric
Watch, ISL Trunking, Integrated Routing, and End-to-End Performance Monitoring (APM).

routing at 8 Gbps.

Availability, and Serviceability (RAS)

task.

Port side of the Brocade 5300

The port side of the Brocade 5300 includes the system status LED, console port, Ethernet port and
LEDs, USB port, and Fibre Channel ports and the corresponding port status LEDs.

Figure 1 shows the port side of the Brocade 5300.

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Non-port side of the Brocade 5300

1

2

7345 8 9 10

13 14 15 16

11 12

6

1

FIGURE 1 Port side view of the Brocade 5300

1 Brocade 5300 9 FC ports 16-23

2 Switch ID pull-out tab 10 FC ports 24-31

3 System status LED (top) 11 FC ports 32-38

System power LED (bottom)

4 Console port 13 FC ports 48-55

5 Ethernet port 14 FC ports 56-63

6 USB port 15 FC ports 64-71

7 FC ports 0-7 16 FC ports 72-79

8FC ports 8-15

Non-port side of the Brocade 5300

Figure shows the non-port side of the Brocade 5300, which contains the power supplies (including

the AC power receptacle and AC power switch) and fans.

12 FC ports 40-47

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Ports on Demand license

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3 7

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FIGURE 2 Non-port side of the Brocade 5300

1 Brocade 5300 5 Fan assembly #2

2 Non-port side of switch 6 Fan assembly #1

3 Power supply #2 7 Power supply #1

4 Fan assembly #3

Ports on Demand license

The Brocade 5300 has 80 ports. By default, ports 0-47 are enabled. As your needs increase, you
can activate unlicensed ports by purchasing and installing the Brocade Ports on Demand (POD)
optional licensed product. After it has been installed, the license appears in the licenseShow
command output as Ports on Demand license.

To install a Ports on Demand license, you can either use the supplied license key or generate a
license key. Typically the switch is shipped with a paper pack that specifies the transaction key to
use with the Software License Keys link. Use this transaction key on the Brocade Web site at
www.brocade.com/licensekeys and follow the instructions to generate the key. You can also use
this site to generate other license keys for your switch.

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After you have installed the license keys, you must enable the ports. You can do so without
disrupting switch operation by using the portEnable command on each port individually.
Alternatively, you can disable and re-enable the switch to activate all ports simultaneously.

For detailed information on enabling additional ports using the Ports on Demand license, refer to
the Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide.

Brocade Inter-Switch Link (ISL) Trunking

Brocade ISL Trunking is optional software that allows you to create trunking groups of ISLs between
adjacent switches. Each eight port group on the Brocade 5300 can be used as a trunking group.
For more information about Brocade ISL Trunking, see the Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide.

Brocade Inter-Switch Link (ISL) Trunking

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